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Fatima 100th Anniversary (1917-2017)For the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, Pope Francis has decided to grant a plenary indulgence opportunity throughout the entire anniversary year, which began 27th November 2016, and will end 26th November 2017.
To obtain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must fulfil ordinary conditions: go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, be detached from sin (even venial), pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (Our Father and Hail Mary would suffice); and complete prescribed indulgenced work, as stated in official document of the Shire of Fatima.
National tour (around England and Wales Cathedrals) of a pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the relics of two of the visionaries (Saint Francisco and Jacinta) may be good opportunity to obtain plenary indulgence. More details on following website.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tuesday 15th August)The feast of the Assumption reminds us that Mary is in heaven body and soul. She is glorified also in her body along with body of her divine Son Jesus. Why? It is because on earth the body of our divine Savour and the body of the Immaculate Mother Mary were sanctified to the maximum degree. The present life is for eternity and our happiness is proportionate to our goodness on earth. And Mary our mother will help us to lead a good and holy life.

Blessed Pope Pius IX’s testimony on his deathbed:The Rosary is a compendium of the Gospel, and gives to those who pray it those rivers of peace of which the Scriptures speak; it is the most beautiful devotion, the most abundant in grace, and the most pleasing to the Heart of Mary. My sons, let this be the testimony by which you remember me on earth.

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That seven heads of the Beast like a leopard, that comes up from the sea to the aid of the Dragon, indicate various masonic lodges, which act everywhere in a subtle and dangerous way. Woman Clothed with the Sun explains:
The grace of redemption, won by Jesus for us through his Sacrifice carried out on Calvary, is communicated by means of the seven sacraments. With grace there becomes implanted in the soul the seeds of supernatural life which are virtues. Among these, the most important are the three theological and the four cardinal virtues: faith, hope, charity; prudence, fortitude, justice and temperance. In the divine sun of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, these virtues germinate, grow, become more and more developed and thus lead the soul along the luminous way of love and of sanctity.
To the seven theological and cardinal virtues, which are the fruits of living in the grace of God, Freemasonry counters with the diffusion of the seven capital vices, which are the fruit of living habitually in the state of sin. To faith it opposes pride; to hope, lust; to charity, avarice; to prudence, anger; to fortitude, sloth; to justice, envy; to temperance, gluttony.
Whoever becomes a victim of the seven capital vices is gradually led to take away the worship that is due to God alone, in order to give it to false divinities, who are the very personification of all these vices. And in this consists the greatest and most horrible blasphemy. This is why on every head of the Beast there is written a blasphemous name. Each masonic lodge has the task of making a different divinity adored.
The first head bears the blasphemous name of pride, which opposes itself to the virtue of faith and leads one to offer worship to the god of human reason and haughtiness, of technology and progress.
The second head bears the blasphemous name of lust, which opposes itself to the virtue of hope and brings one to offer worship to the god of sexuality and of impurity.
The third head bears the blasphemous name of avarice, which opposes itself to the virtue of charity and spreads everywhere the worship of the god of money.
The fourth head bears the blasphemous name of anger, which opposes itself to the virtue of prudence and leads one to offer worship to the god of discord and division.
The fifth head bears the blasphemous name of sloth, which opposes itself to the virtue of fortitude and disseminates the worship of the idol of fear, of public opinion and of exploitation.
The sixth head bears the blasphemous name of envy, which opposes itself to the virtue of justice and leads one to offer worship to the idol of violence and of war.
The seventh head bears the blasphemous name of gluttony, which opposes itself to the virtue of temperance and leads one to offer worship to the so highly extolled idol of hedonism, of materialism and of pleasure.
The task of the masonic lodges is that of working today, with great astuteness, to bring humanity everywhere to disdain the holy Law of God, to work in open opposition to the Ten Commandments, and to take away the worship due to God alone in order to offer it to certain false idols which become extolled and adored by an ever increasing number of people: reason, flesh, money, discord, domination, violence, pleasure. Thus souls are precipitated into the dark slavery of evil, of vice and of sin and, at the moment of death and of the judgement of God, into the pool of eternal fire which is hell.

Father Stefano Gobbi – To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons

That Masonry is the church of Satan on the earth?
My son how many times I told you and I reminded you that Lucifer and his staff based their activity and their way of being to mimic God.
I, Jesus, true God and true Man, have founded my hierarchic Church… and hierarchic is the church of Satan on the earth, the Masonry; I, Jesus, had disseminated spiritual fortresses in all my Church…. the Masonry, the church of the devil, has disseminated throughout the world its lodges with heads and followers with the only purpose to oppose and combat my Church. Now being the Demons like that just because rebel to God, all their activity is inspired and pivoted on the rebellion and therefore on the contrary of what is being accomplished in my Church.
The Masonry wanted, sustained and guided by the obscure powers of the evil, is reaching its maximum level of its work of demolition of my Church operating both inside and outside it; inside it has a lot of followers at the height and at the basis, outside as always masked of hypocrisy but hitting and injecting with its poisonous sting all those it comes into contact with, today then, foreseeing at hand the great fight minutely prepared from so long time with deceitful art it doesn’t hesitate to disclose what has always kept jealously hidden, concealed.
They charge with madness those who have remained and remain faithful to the faith and to the fidelity to God and to the Church, that, even if nearly entirely prisoner of these gloomy infernal and earthly forces, will resist and will not be destroyed, on the contrary, from the sufferings of the present hour it will get out more beautiful and brighter as it has never been.

Father Ottavio Michelini – Confidences of Jesus to a Priest

What Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us about sorrows of His Mother?
Everyone can share in the merits and in the goods produced by the sorrows of my Mother. One who, in advance, places herself in the hands of Providence, offering herself to suffer any kind of pains, miseries, illnesses, calumnies, and everything which the Lord will dispose upon her, comes to share in the first sorrow of the prophecy of Simeon. One who actually finds herself in a state of suffering, and is resigned, clings more tightly to Me, and does not offend Me, it is as if she were saving Me from the hands of Herod, and she keeps Me, safe and sound, within the Egypt of her heart. So she participates in the second sorrow. One who feels gloomy, dry, and deprived of my presence, and remains yet firm and faithful to her usual practices; even more, she takes the opportunity to love Me and to search for Me more, without tiring – comes to share in the merits and goods which my Mother acquired when I was lost. One who, in any circumstance, feels sorry in seeing Me gravely offended, despised, trampled upon, and tries to repair Me, to compassionate Me, and to pray for the very ones who offend Me – it is as if I encountered in that soul my own Mother, who would have freed Me from my enemies, had She been able to do so. So she shares in the fourth sorrow. One who crucifies her senses for love of my Crucifixion, and tries to copy the virtues of my Crucifixion within herself, participates in the fifth one. One who is in a continuous attitude of adoring, of kissing my wounds, of repairing, of thanking etc., in the name of all mankind, it is as if she were holding Me in her arms, just as my Mother held Me when I was deposed from the Cross – and she shares in Her sixth sorrow. One who remains in my grace and corresponds to it, giving a place to no one else but Me within her heart, it is as if she buried Me in the center of her heart – and she shares in the seventh one.

Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta – Book of Heaven Vol. 6

Seven Sorrows

1. The prophecy of Simeon —Luke 2, 34-35
2. The flight into Egypt —Matthew 2, 13-14
3. The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple —Luke 2, 43-45
4. The meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the Cross —Luke 23, 27
5. The Crucifixion —John 19, 18-27
6. The taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross —Mark 15, 43-46
7. The burial of Jesus. —John 19, 41-42

Promises

Blessed Virgin Mary revealed to Saint Bridget of Sweden that those who pray Hail Mary while meditating on each of her Seven Sorrows will receive seven graces:
1. I will grant peace to their families
2. They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries
3. I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work
4. I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls
5. I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives
6. I will visibly help them at the moment of their death; they will see the face of their Mother
7. I have obtained this grace from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins will be forgiven. My Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.